WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Trump administration is nearing completion of new “Buy American” rules to make it easier to sell U.S.-made military drones overseas and compete against fast-growing Chinese and Israeli rivals, senior U.S. officials said. The changes, part of a broader effort to overhaul U.S. arms export protocols, could be rolled out by the…
Harvey Weinstein is taking an indefinite leave from the Weinstein Company, the film production company said on Friday, adding it will conduct an internal investigation into the New York Times’ report of sexual harassment allegations against one of the most powerful men in Hollywood. The Weinstein Company board of representatives said in a statement that…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The special counsel investigating whether Russia tried to sway the 2016 U.S. election has taken over FBI inquiries into a former British spy’s dossier of allegations of Russian financial and personal links to President Trump’s campaign and associates, sources familiar with the inquiry told Reuters. A report compiled by former MI6 officer…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Trump said in an interview broadcast on Saturday that he wanted to give a shot at achieving peace between Israel and the Palestinians before moving the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. In June Trump signed a temporary order to keep the U.S. embassy in Tel Aviv, despite a campaign…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The top U.S. military officer said on Tuesday that Iran was complying with the pact curbing its nuclear program and warned that any American decision to walk away from it would make other nations less likely to enter into agreements with the United States. President Trump is considering whether to withdraw from…
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Jewish Congress on Sunday expressed alarm at the far-right Alternative for Germany’s success in Germany’s parliamentary election and urged other parties not to form an alliance with the AfD. Early projections gave the AfD 13.5 percent of the vote, allow it to enter the Bundestag for the first time, as…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Investor Carl Icahn never wielded excessive influence on U.S. biofuels policy while acting as President Trump’s adviser on regulation, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency said in a letter to a Democratic Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse. The letter, dated September 11, was a response to repeated requests by Whitehouse and other Democratic…
BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday used the first Latin America visit by an Israeli PM to praise Argentine President Mauricio Macri’s effort to solve the 1994 bombing of a Buenos Aires Jewish center that killed 85 people. Argentine courts have blamed the attack on Iran. But no one has…
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